Fr. Tom Collins describes how the USCCB Acts Like the Liberal Democrat Party...

Disgraced Cardinal Wuerl addresses the conference
in November.  They still listen to this man?
Are the bishops serious about clergy sex abuse?
Sure doesn't look like it!

Editor's comment....The bishops' buraucracy enables abortion, contraception, gender ideology, and other moral evils through their "charities," particularly the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (disguised under other names in some dioceses), Catholic Charities, Catholic Relief Services, etc. All these "charities" which do some good work also contribute to abject moral evils. You can't give to them without contributing to the evil. So with one hand you offer help and with the other slap the face of Christ. But, hey, supporting liberal politics keeps the federal tax dollars flowing into the bishops' coffers. So accepting a "little" sin is the price one pays to keep the money flowing! Thirty pieces of silver anyone?

Many bishops are good little Democrats who have no problem excoriating orthodox Catholics for taking prudential positions on illegal migration, global warming, the environment, etc. with which they disagree. "Open borders!" they shout while they lock the doors of our churches and lock their houses, chanceries, and cars. "You peons go ahead and pay the billions in education, health care, and welfare caused by invaders breaking our laws. No problem for us. Just keep dropping those envelopes in the collection basket so we can live like princes!" Fr. Collins identifies the problem with the USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops). What we need next is advice on how a faithful Catholic in the pew should respond. 

For several decades now, it the USCCB has, de facto, regularly been giving a “free pass” to a number of dangerous political, societal and psychological trends, among them are:

• The obfuscation of facts about the immigration crisis, so as to provides propaganda cover for coyotes, drug dealers and others, who use innocent women and children as human shields to cover their nefarious activities; 

• The obfuscation of the brutal facts about abortion by providing Democrat leaders the cover of a “seamless garment”, which both diminishes the seriousness of abortion and allows Catholic politicians who promote it with a “lesser of two evils”rationale, whereby they can both justify their pro-abortion stand as part of a “social justice” agenda and receive glowing accolades from Church leaders for their “diligence and “compassion”;

• The slanderous use of the charge of “racist” by secular progressives against any whodare to question or oppose any part of their agenda, even though that agenda includes support for Planned Parenthood’s genocidal policies against the African-Americancommunity (cf., documentary at maafa21.com);

• The degradation and desecration of our youth through government-sponsored “family life curricula”, whereby children are instructed to develop “positive and non-judgmental” attitudes toward such moral perversions as contraception, abortion, fornication, sodomy, masturbation, cunnilingus and marital infidelity;

• The promotion of “compassion” and “tolerance” for couples, who are merely living together and for those in homosexual relationships, thus undermining a consistent call for all to take seriously the sacred demands of the virtue of chastity;

• The continuing protection of certain high ranking clergy, guilty of the sexual abuse of minors, even after the fear of the lawsuit supplanted the fear of the Lord in so many dioceses, and now necessitating sweeping investigations of personnel files in a number of dioceses;

• The promotion of moral ambiguity by validating the “lived experience” of strong emotional/ hormonal drives as more credible than the absolute truths supporting objective moral standards (When did we last hear references to the reality of concupiscence?);

• The desecration of the Mass and the Eucharistic Christ by liturgical innovations and “pastoral considerations”, which prohibit the “harsh” proclamation of the reality andthe seriousness of the sin of sacrilege;

• The capitulation to comfort, convenience and complacency by changing the dates forsome solemnities, by eliminating the obligation to participate at Mass on other major solemnities and by dispensing from Friday Lenten abstinence on St. Patrick’s Day.

• The insistence that the purpose of the liturgy is to make people feel good about themselves,rather than help all Catholics to hold themselves accountable to the whole truth of God (eg., If it is OK to receive Holy Communion after deliberately violating the Third Commandment, why is it not likewise OK to receive Holy Communion after deliberately violating any of the other Commandments?).

Sadly, for too long leaders at the USCCB have chosen to overlook two basic truths. First, the fact that character formation is organic and holistic, and does not merely engage parts of a person’s life. Second, virtue cannot be attained by capitulation to falsehood, perversion, cowardice or laziness. For too long now, those Catholics, who have sought to loyally live out the whole truth of God, have been treated in a way reminiscent of David’s treatment of his loyal soldier, Urriah the Hittite. If, by humble and contrite receptivity to God’s gracious mercy, current trends are not reversed, America may soon witness the degradation of several dioceses to the status of titular sees. [Editor's note: A "titular see" is one that no longer functions, sometimes referred to as a "dead diocese."]